The attempt to burn down the forests seems only partially to have succeeded.

The Prussians appear to be using them, and the French to the last carrying on war without scouts.
6 P.M.
Evening papers just out.

Not a word about Clamart.

The _Liberte_ says the Minister of the Interior refers journalists to General Trochu, who claims the right to suppress what he pleases.

When will French Governments understand that it is far more productive of demoralisation to allow no official news to be published than to publish the worst?
Rochefort has been appointed President of a Committee of Barricades, to organise a second line of defence within the ramparts.
7 P.M.
The cannon can be distinctly heard.